Clock Cottage, And Stable Cottage At Brickendon Bury

TL 31 SW BRICKENDON LIBERTY BRICKENDON LANE (East side)

1/38 Clock Cottage, and Stable 24.11.66 Cottage at Brickendon Bury (formerly listed as Stable Buildings)

GV II

Stable block, now 2 houses. '1894 G & S P' on side of armorial panel, for George Pearson. Converted after 1971. Red brick with blue brick plinth offset and window sills, moulded sandstone entrance archway and armorial panel on RH buttress. Half-timbered black-and-white first floor and recessed top of tower. Steep red tile roofs and black painted bargeboards with pendants. An irregular L-shaped block fronting the main drive, facing S, with twin gables and canted small bay windows to lower, 1½-storeys LH part (Stable Cottage). Next this a 4-storeys tower with cross-roof, the ground floor a tunnel vaulted carriageway with tall pointed stone entrance arch between projecting brick buttresses. Semi-circular rear arch to yard. Large segmental-pedimented clock bracketed out from upper part of front, below balustraded balcony and above 4-lights leaded mullioned window over the arch. Polygonal stair turret projects on E side of tower topped by open timber stage with bell and tile and lead cap roof with enlarged knob to finial. 2-storeys corner house attached (Clock Cottage) has projecting gable next corner with bracketed oriel window over canted bay window 4-bays casements with small panes. Large projecting chimney on E gable end with expanded base. Carriageway and yard of stable paviors.

Listing NGR: TL3297810482